Scouting teaches people to be interested in the world around them
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Stanislav Balík, a political scientist, historian and a Scout, was born February 20, 1978 in Bludov. During his childhood in the Normalization period he took religion classes and was an altar boy in the local church. He joined a Scout troop in early 1990 and has been an active Scout ever since. In 1994, as a sixteen-year-old, he took charge of the Scout troop in Bludov and later became leader of the entire Group. He graduated from a gymnasium in Šumperk and then studied history at the Faculty of Arts and political science at the Faculty of Social Studies at Masaryk University in Brno. He was an assistant at the political science department between the years 2002 and 2004 and became an assistant professor in 2005. He became head of the department after becoming a senior lecturer in 2008. He remained in function until elected dean of the Faculty of Social Studies in September 2019. He is an elected representative at the Bludov municipality after running as an independent on the Civic Democrats’ ballot. He has been a leader of the Jeseníky Forest School and its forest trainings for Scout troop leaders since 2000.
